I was intimidated as I began the installation of DSpace. This was mainly because I had started by reading all the discussion posts in the Tech Activity section of D2L, and it looked as if many people were having installation problems.
The first problem I encountered took me a full day to conquer, and even then it was not the resolution of the problem but a work around. I still do not understand why the second VM would not connect with the same fixed IP address as the first VM. But at least I was able to get DSpace configured using a bridged mode.
During the actually configuration I began to get a sense of what I was doing—not all the time, but enough to feel that I was not just transcribing code from one form to another. I also felt this way last week while adding a new module to Drupal and reformatted previous code to install the new module. This is such a beginning step--I know that for any major undertaking I would be very dependent on a system specialist. But I do feel now that the CLI is not an enemy, I even am beginning to enjoy working with it.
I am grateful to Bruce’s attention to detail when writing our tech assignments. Little notes like “put your host’s name in the brackets” and “there is a space after x” are what this beginner needs.
I looked at the two other installation instructions at SUNScholar and DSpace. I felt as the one from SUNScholar assumed that the audience was an advanced programmer who just needed a quick review on the directions. the instructions at DSpace seemed a little friendlier. I particularly liked that those instructions called for TOMCAT and PostgreSQL to be installed during the installation of Ubuntu. Every little bit helps.
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